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Book SynopsisThis book invites all people of faith to consider how our personal and communal faith practices in growing deeper spirituality should bring us to a fresh engagement with the needs of this world. This includes being active in promoting those values which align with our understanding of the gospel and standing against injustice, oppression, and evil inflicted on any of God's children. Such activism, rooted in deep spirituality, may include being what Quaker civil rights activist Bayard Rustin called "angelic troublemakers."

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Book SynopsisReflects on the meaning of death and loss for three generations of the author's family and their friends. Focusing on issues of bullying, child rearing, and non-conformity, this work offers a look at growing up Quaker in the tumultuous 1960s that shows the more sober side of the decade's counterculture.Trade ReviewBeth Taylor's memoir is one of the most tender and moving books I've read in a long time. Written with poise and grace, never falling into self-pity, The Plain Language of Love and Loss will surely touch the heart of anyone who has found the means to salvage a kind of meaning out of great tragedy. This is a book I will not forget.â Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried and In the Lake of the Woods ""The Plain Language of Love and Loss blesses us all with its wisdom and grace. It is a luminous, powerful, and unforgettable book that is ultimately a triumph of the human spirit and a sister's love.""â Laura Palmer, author of Shrapnel in the Heart and coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Escape â This tender narrative is, on the surface, about Quakers and Quakerism in modern America. It is about one familyâ s struggle to align its spiritual strivings with the realities of human limitations and the uncontrollability of circumstance. And it is about some of the ways that the Vietnam War era indelibly marked America. But it is also about much, much more, and anyone who has raised (or is raising) children will empathize here with the poignant collage of tragedy, vulnerability, humdrum, and triumph, as well as the bittersweet canvas of both community and isolation upon which the hues of all our lives are painted.â - Emma Jones Lapsansky-Werner, Professor of History and Curator of the Quaker Collection at Haverford College and coeditor of Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption, 1720â 1920

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Book SynopsisThis book is an attempt 'to explain the Quaker way, as far as that is possible'. It is a distinctive way and, though perhaps no better than others, it has its own integrity and effectiveness. Although it is fairly well known, Quakerism is not well understood, so the purpose of this book is to make it intelligible, to explain how it works as a spiritual practice and why it has adopted the particular practices it has. It is aimed primarily at non-Quakers, who may nonetheless be interested to know what Quakerism is about.

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Book SynopsisStructured around questions which non-Quakers often ask, this book explores Quaker practices, explaining them in the context of Quaker theology and present-day diversity. It describes how Quakers make decisions and why they have preferred this method, as well as looking at the Quaker rejection of common Christian practices like baptism. Each short chapter gives an answer, considers why that is so, describes some of the diversity within Quaker groups, and points to other resources which could be used to find out more.

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Book SynopsisAn illuminating collection of work by members of the Religious Society of Friends. Covering nearly three centuries of religious development, this comprehensive anthology brings together writings from prominent Friends that illustrate the development of Quakerism, show the nature of Quaker spiritual life, discuss Quaker contributions to European and American civilization, and introduce the diverse community of Friends, some of whom are little remembered even among Quakers today. It gives a balanced overview of Quaker history, spanning the globe from its origins to missionary work, and explores daily life, beliefs, perspectives, movements within the community, and activism throughout the world. It is an exceptional contribution to contemporary understanding of religious thought.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a glo

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Book SynopsisThis is the first scholarly biography of George Fox (1624-91), an important Reformation leader and founding organizer of the Religious Society of Friends. Firmly grounded in primary sources and enriched with fascinating detail, this engagingly written and original study reveals hitherto unknown sides of a man who became known as First Among Friends.Trade Review[the author] takes a fresh look at all the surviving evidence, provides a comprehensive assembly of scholarly research and discussion, and offers conclusions which are objective * Church Times *

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Book SynopsisThe mid-seventeenth century saw both the expansion of the Baptist sect and the rise and growth of Quakerism. At first, the Quaker movement attracted some Baptist converts, but relations between the two groups soon grew hostile. Public disputes broke out and each group denounced the other in polemical tracts. Nevertheless in this book, Underwood contends that Quakers and Baptists had much in common with each other, as well as with the broader Puritan and Nonconformist tradition. By examining the Quaker/Baptist relationship in particular, Underwood seeks to understand where and why Quaker views diverged from English Protestantism in general and, in the process, to clarify early Quaker beliefs.Trade Reviewimportant book ... a fascinating, scholarly analysis of the crucial years in which Quakers defined and established their beliefs and structures ... Detailed notes and an extensive bibliography support the text ... a coherent and clear presentation of early Quaker beliefs, and their occasional difficulties in supporting them ... This book is essential reading for understanding the challenge and achievement of seventeenth century Quakerism. * The Friend *This is a valuable study. * J.F.McGregor. Ecclesistical History Vol.50 No.3 July 99. *Important book ... a fascinating, scholarly analysis of the crucial years in which Quakers defined and established their beliefs and structures ... Detailed notes and an extensive bibliography support the text ... Professor Underwood is able to give a coherent and clear presentation of early Quaker beliefs, and their occasional difficulties in supporting them ... This book is essential reading for understanding the challenge and achievement of seventeenth century Quakerism. * The Friend *

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Book SynopsisQuakerism began in England in the 1650s. George Fox, credited as leading the movement, had an experience of 1647 in which he felt he could hear Christ directly and inwardly without the mediation of text or minister. Convinced of the authenticity of this experience and its universal application, Fox preached a spirituality in which potentially all were ministers, all part of a priesthood of believers, a church levelled before the leadership of God. Quakers are a fascinating religious group both in their original ''peculiarity'' and in the variety of reinterpretations of the faith since. The way they have interacted with wider society is a basic but often unknown part of British and American history. This handbook charts their history and the history of their expression as a religious community. This volume provides an indispensable reference work for the study of Quakerism. It is global in its perspectives and interdisciplinary in its approach whilst offering the reader a clear narrativTrade Review[A] landmark achievement in its comprehensiveness and nuance. It demonstrates Quakerism to be a diverse and complex religion that is constantly changing and interacting with external pressures, and it shows Quaker Studies to be a cutting-edge and active field of scholarship. * Quaker Religious Thought *An indispensable resource for anyone interested in the academic study of Qakerism. Essential. * J. H. Sniegocki, Choice, *Table of ContentsI: HISTORY OF QUAKERISM; II: QUAKER THEOLOGY AND SPIRITUALITY; III: QUAKER WITNESS; IV: QUAKER EXPRESSION

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Book SynopsisShows how Quakers forged a paradoxical sense of their place in the world as militant warriors fighting for peace. The author argues that during the turbulent Age of Revolution and Reaction, the Religious Society of Friends forged a holy nation, a transnational community of like-minded believers committed to divine law and to one another.Trade Review"Crabtree has presented a strong and compelling history of the Quaker challenge to emergent nationalism during the Age of Revolutions. Well-grounded theoretically and smoothly written, Holy Nation is highly intriguing, is deeply researched, and offers a creative and important intervention in the fields of religious and Atlantic history." (Katherine Carte Engel, Southern Methodist University)

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"To Live Peaceably Together is an original and highly readable book that reorients our understanding of the Black Freedom Struggle in the North by focusing on an advocacy group run mainly by white allies, a historical topic with great contemporary relevance. I salute K'Meyer's achievement in telling this fascinating and overlooked story." * Todd Michney, Georgia Institute of Technology *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 Getting Started: Launching the Housing Opportunities Programs Chapter 2 Organizing the Suburbs: White Fair Housers and Black Pioneers Chapter 3 Direct Action: Battering the Gates, Nonviolently Chapter 4 Speaking Truth to Power: Using the Power of Government to Integrate Housing Chapter 5 Community Organizing: "A People Program in a Housing Context" Conclusion Acknowledgments Archive Collection Abbreviations Notes Index

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Book SynopsisOffers a collection of fifteen insightful essays that examines the complexity and diversity of Quaker antislavery attitudes across three centuries, from 1658 to 1890. This volume seeks to correct that oversight, offering accessible and provocative insights on a key chapter of religious, political, and cultural history.Trade Review"A nicely balanced volume in every way, important not only for what it covers but also for how it will inspire future students of Quakers and race. These essays encourage other scholars to reexamine Quakers and their interracial activism, while suggesting a variety of useful new perspectives and tools."--Allan W. Austin, author of Quaker Brotherhood: Interracial Activism and the American Friends Service Committee, 1917-1950 "The editors write in their introduction that they hope 'the essays offered here will raise as many questions as they answer and encourage further research' (p. 10). They succeed admirably in this goal, presenting a strong collection of essays that leave one inspired to learn more."--The North Carolina Historical Review "This work provides a more complete understanding of the diversity and complexity of historical Quaker responses to slavery/anti-slavery."--Choice "This book. . .. puts on the table numerous richly detailed pieces of the puzzle that is Quakers antislavery. The essays are a pleasure to read, both individually and as a group, and they are indicative of the exciting directions in which scholarship at the intersection of Quaker and abolitionist historiography might be headed."--Civil War Book Review"An excellent overview of recent scholarship on Quaker antislavery and introduces readers to several new topics for future analysis. . . . the book should be of interest to those long familiar with this subject as well as to a broader audience seeking to understand the influence of the Quakers' religious experience on the antislavery movement."--The Journal of American History "The book is remarkably transatlantic (in its contributors and its subjects) and will serve to expand and enrich our analyses of the British and American antislavery movement(s)."--American Studies Table of ContentsContributors Dee E. Andrews, Kristen Block, Brycchan Carey, Christopher Densmore, Andrew Diemer, J. William Frost, Thomas D. Hamm, Nancy A. Hewitt, Maurice Jackson, Anna Vaughan Kett, Emma Jones Lapsansky-Werner, Gary B. Nash, Geoffrey Plank, Ellen M. Ross, Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, James Emmett Ryan, and James Walvin.

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Book SynopsisCommitted abolitionist, controversial Quaker minister, tireless pacifist, fiery crusader for women''s rights--Lucretia Mott was one of the great reformers in America history. Her sixty years of sermons and speeches reached untold thousands of people. Yet Mott eschewed prepared lectures in favor of an extemporaneous speaking style inspired by the inner light at the core of her Quaker faith. It was left to stenographers, journalists, Friends, and colleagues to record her words for posterity. Drawing on widely scattered archives, newspaper accounts, and other sources, Lucretia Mott Speaks unearths the essential speeches and remarks from Mott''s remarkable career. The editors have chosen selections representing important themes and events in her public life. Extensive annotations provide vibrant context and show Mott''s engagement with allies and opponents. The speeches illuminate her passionate belief that her many causes were all intertwined. The result is an authoritative resoTrade Review"Many of the most evocative and informative entries in this collection are not ones Mott polished and edited for publication, but accounts of her words paraphrased or hurriedly recorded by reporters and scribes. Newspaper reports, in particular, contain vivid descriptions of her demeanour and manner of speaking, and the effect that she had on others in the room. Her impact was enormous." --Journal of Ecclesiastical History"Eye-opening and invigorating. The editors have, quite sensibly, employed a light editorial hand, preferring to let Mott's speeches take center stage, and to let Mott herself stand in the spotlight. This is a wonderful collection."--Anne Boylan, author of Women's Rights in the United States: A History in Documents"For those who want to delve deeply into the thinking of Lucretia Mott, this book offers an excellent look into her interrelated causes. . . . This collection shows how she managed to mention so many of her favorite topics in her talks."--Friends Journal"This book lays excellent groundwork for much-needed scholarship.... General readers will be pleasantly surprised to find a lively, spirited, radical, complex woman who defies common stereotypes." --Quaker Studies"This superb and authoritative collection of speeches and sermons of radical activist and renowned orator Lucretia Mott conveys the breadth and depth of Mott’s visionary leadership in abolition, women's rights, religious and political reform, and education and peace."--Ellen Ross, author of The Grief of God: Images of the Suffering Jesus in Late Medieval England"Highly recommended."--ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction xi Editorial Policies xxix lucretia mott speaks: the essential speeches and sermons Twelfth Street Meeting, Philadelphia, 1818 3 Pennsylvania Hall, Philadelphia, May 16 and 17, 1838 3 New England Non-Resistance Society, Chardon Street Chapel, Boston, September 25–27, 1839 4 Unitarian Chapel, August 9, 1840, Glasgow, Scotland 6 Marlboro Chapel, Boston, September 23, 1841 8 Rose Street Meeting, New York City, September 29, 1841 14 Manhattan Society, Asbury Church, New York City, September 29, 1841 15 Unitarian Church, Washington, D.C., January 15, 1843 16 Hicksite Meetinghouse, Rochester, New York, July 21, 1844 27 Unitarian Christians Convention, First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia, October 22, 1846 28 Anti-Sabbath Convention, The Melodeon, Boston, March 24, 1848 30 American Anti-Slavery Society, Broadway Tabernacle, New York City, May 9, 1848 39 Women’s Rights Convention, Wesleyan Chapel, Seneca Falls, New York, July 19–20, 1848 44 Women’s Rights Convention, Unitarian Church, Rochester, New York, August 2, 1848 45 “Sermon to the Medical Students,” Cherry Street Meeting, Philadelphia, February 11, 1849 48 American Anti-Slavery Society, Minerva Rooms, New York City, May 8, 1849 55 Cherry Street Meeting, Philadelphia, November 4, 1849 56 Cherry Street Meeting, Philadelphia, November 6, 1849 64 “Discourse on Woman,” Assembly Buildings, Philadelphia, December 17, 1849 68 Cherry Street Meeting, Philadelphia, March 31, 1850 81 Women’s Rights Convention, Brinley Hall, Worcester, Massachusetts, October 23–24, 1850 87 Isaac T. Hopper Memorial Service, Broadway Tabernacle, New York City, May 12, 1852 92 Women’s Rights Convention, Horticultural Hall, West Chester, Pennsylvania, June 2–3, 1852 93 Women’s Rights Convention, City Hall, Syracuse, New York, September 8–10, 1852 95 Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, Horticultural Hall, West Chester, Pennsylvania, October 25–26, 1852 100 Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, Assembly Buildings, Philadelphia, December 15–16, 1852 102 Women’s Rights Convention, Broadway Tabernacle, New York City, September 6–7, 1853 104 Women’s Rights Convention, Melodeon Hall, Cleveland, October 5 and 7, 1853 110 Rose Street Meeting, New York City, November 11, 1855 120 Women’s Rights Convention, Broadway Tabernacle, New York City, November 25–26, 1856 122 Yardleyville, Pennsylvania, September 26, 1858 127 American Anti-Slavery Society, Assembly Rooms, New York City, May 11, 1859 137 Anti-Slavery Sympathy Meeting, Assembly Buildings, Philadelphia, December 16, 1859 138 Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, Town-Hall, Kennett Square, October 25–26, 1860 139 Fifteenth Street Meeting, New York City, June 1, 1862 142 30th Anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Concert Hall, Philadelphia, December 3–4, 1863 144 American Anti-Slavery Society, Church of the Puritans and Cooper Institute, New York City, May 10–11, 1864 148 Women’s Rights Convention, Church of the Puritans, New York City, May 10, 1866 151 Fifteenth Street Meeting, New York City, November 11, 1866 153 Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, November 22–23, 1866 160 American Equal Rights Association, Church of the Puritans, New York City, May 9–10, 1867 163 Free Religious Association, Horticultural Hall, Boston, May 30, 1867 166 Second Unitarian Church, Brooklyn, New York, November 24, 1867 171 Pennsylvania Peace Society, Assembly Buildings, Philadelphia, November 17–18, 1868 178 Race Street Meeting, Philadelphia, March 14, 1869 180 Women’s Suffrage Meeting, Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York, May 14, 1869 189 Pennsylvania Peace Society, Friends’ Meeting House, Abington, Pennsylvania, September 19, 1869 191 Opening of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, November 10, 1869 195 Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society, Assembly Buildings, March 24, 1870 196 American Anti-Slavery Society, Apollo Hall, New York City, April 9, 1870 197 Reform League, Steinway Hall, New York City, May 9, 1871 199 Fifteenth Street Meeting, New York City, May 26, 1872 199 Funeral of Mary Ann W. Johnson, Home of Oliver Johnson, New York City, June 10, 1872 201 Free Religious Association, Tremont Temple, Boston, May 30, 1873 203 Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting, Race Street, November 4, 1873 205 Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, Concert Hall, Philadelphia, April 14, 1875 207 Free Religious Association, Beethoven Hall, Boston, May 28, 1875 207 Women’s Peace Festival, Institute Hall, Philadelphia, June 2, 1875 209 Women’s Peace Festival, Mercantile Hall, Philadelphia, June 2, 1876 211 30th Anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention, Unitarian Church, Rochester, New York, July 19, 1878 214 Acknowledgments 217 Index 219

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPreface and Acknowledgments from the First Edition of 2000Introduction to the Twentieth Anniversary EditionPart 1: Quaker Beginnings, 1646–16581. Genesis2. The Quaker Explosion3. The Consequences of James NaylerPart 2: Shaping the Quaker Faith4. The Biblical Framework5. The Kingdom of the Lord6. Putting Experience into Words7. Heated Controversy8. Serious TheologyPart 3: Quakers in Practice9. Walking in the Light10. Foundations of the Gospel Order11. Quakers Meeting 12. “Sufferings” Before the RestorationPart 4: Turmoil and Transition, 1659–166613. The Defeat of the Radicals14. Survival15. The Consequences of John Perrot16. Poetry, Testimonies, and Pastoral Epistles17. MetamorphosisAppendix 1: Sources of Information for Early QuakerismAppendix 2: Research MethodsAppendix 3: Table of PublicationsNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines how and why the Continental Congress and Pennsylvania’s newly elected leaders detained Quaker pacifists and exiled them to Virginia in 1777–78.Trade Review“[N]ever have the struggles of this early group of American political prisoners been so thoroughly documented, with extensive use of primary material. Donoghue argues persuasively that the then provisional government’s exile of the Quakers set a worrisome example for religious, racial, and political minorities, just as the young republic was being born.”—Cameron McWhirter Friends Journal“Author Norman Donohue is a fine historian who brings life to this little-known story. . . . Prisoners of Congress brings to life an important and compelling event of the American Revolution. Read it. You’ll like it!”—Kim Burdick Journal of the American Revolution“Prisoners of Congress is one of the best books I’ve read in ages. If history is traditionally dry, this book is an atmospheric river. The factual telling and interpreting of this little-known history is so vivid and character-based that it feels cinematic. It captures how our social values at the time history was made directed the actions of our ancestors—and in so doing set the foundations for so much of what was to come. This book is so cinematic I would not be surprised to see it on Netflix sooner rather than later.”—Senator John Hickenlooper “Norman Donoghue's Prisoners of Congress brings to life one of the most important and compelling events of the American Revolution in Philadelphia. It is an untold story of national significance.”—Patrick Spero,author of Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765–1776“Anybody interested in the tensions between politics and religion, a matter so urgent to us today, should read Donoghue’s account of the Quaker exiles. Almost novelistic in its compelling narrative, this study marshals familiar and unfamiliar sources to recover the story of America’s first political prisoners.”—Scott Paul Gordon,author of The Letters of Mary Penry: A Single Moravian Woman in Early America“Far from a niche story, Prisoners of Congress is a meticulously researched book with enormous present-day relevance. It reveals important truths about American political and religious institutions before, during, and after the Revolution and shines a startlingly new and important light on familiar people, places, and themes.”—Sarah Crabtree,author of Holy Nation: The Transatlantic Quaker Ministry in an Age of Revolution“Norman Donoghue has given us what is likely to be the definitive account of a largely forgotten but significant episode of the American Revolution. Elegantly written and based on exhaustive research, Prisoners of Congress illustrates the tensions between religious liberty and dissent, on one hand, and fears of invasion and subversion, on the other, that have been present from the founding of the American republic.”—Thomas Hamm,Earlham College“Donoghue's book is not only an exceptional examination of a little-known episode during the War of Independence, but also a cautionary tale for our divided times.”—Max L. Carter,William R. Rogers Director of Friends Center and Quaker Studies (emeritus), Guilford College“Prisoners of Congress illustrates how the national debate over individual rights versus national security regarding habeas corpus in wartime began not during the Civil War but during the very founding of our nation. . . . An excellent read as well as an educational one for a debate that continues to this day.”—Philip Wasielewski,Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute“Prisoners of Congress is a fascinating tale recounting a little-known roundup of Quaker leaders during the Revolution, to tell us in spare, elegant prose, the story of their history in Philadelphia and what made them tick.”—John Lehman,65th Secretary of the Navy, member of the 9/11 Commission, and author of Oceans Ventured: Winning the Cold War at SeaTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsDramatis Personae: The Quaker Exiles of 1777–1778, Their Nemeses, and the Women’s MissionIntroduction1. Quaker Rebellion2. Quaker Refusals 3. Friends as Enemies4. Quaker Arrests5. Peaceable Caravan6. Virginia Exiles7. Quaker Home Front8. Quaker Peace Mission9. Quaker Ordeals10. Winter Stress11. Shadow of Death12. “Entirely an Act of Our Own”13. “Able Politicians”14. Release and ReturnCoda: Reintegration, or NotEpilogueHomageAppendix A: Combined Timeline of the Quaker Exile (September 11, 1777–April 30, 1778) amid the Philadelphia Campaign (August 25, 1777–June 18, 1778), Including Governance of the CityAppendix B: Israel Pemberton et al., [Protest] “To the President and Council of Pennsylvania,” September 8, 1777Appendix C: The Women’s Petition, April 1778Notes BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary investigation of nineteenth-century Quaker women’s cultural challenges, historical landmarks, and gender transgressions. Explores the dynamic ways that Quaker women were active agents of social and cultural change within multiple contexts. Trade Review“This volume is an engaging overview of the diversity of women's experiences in a pivotal century for the Society of Friends. The essays offer important new insights on how Quaker women navigated competing religious and social expectations.”—Carol Faulkner,Syracuse UniversityTable of ContentsForeword by Janet ScottList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionRobynne Rogers Healey and Carole Dale SpencerPart 1: Engaging Conflict and Separations1. Hicksite Women in the Long Nineteenth CenturyThomas D. Hamm2. Elizabeth Robson, Transatlantic Women Ministers, and the Hicksite-Orthodox SchismRobynne Rogers Healey3. Women in the World of George W. Taylor: The Public and Private Worlds of Orthodox Quaker WomenJulie L. HolcombPart 2: Engaging Diversity4. Vocation, Religious Identity, and the Abolitionist Networks of Sarah Mapps Douglass and Sojourner TruthStephen W. Angell5. “She Hath Done What She Could”: The Charitable Antislavery Work of Eleanor Clark of StreetAnna Vaughan Kett6. Ruth Esther Smith (1870–1947): Foremother to Friends in Central AmericaJennifer M. BuckPart 3: Engaging Sacred and Secular Literature7. An Unforeseen Consequence of the Orthodox-Hicksite Schism (1827–1828): The Fiction Writing of Amelia Opie, Helen Hunt Jackson, Mary Howitt, and Mary Hallock FooteIsabelle Cosgrave8. A Friendly Daughter: Lucy Barton’s (Ex-)Quaker Identity, Cultural Negotiations, and Authorial InheritanceNancy Jiwon Cho9. The “Mystic Sense” of Scripture as Taught by Holiness Quaker Hannah Whitall SmithCarole Dale SpencerPart 4: Engaging the Wider Social and Cultural World10. “Radicalism Within Boundaries”: Excavating the Contribution of Women Quakers to Radical Reform in Britain and Their Transnational Networks in the Nineteenth CenturyJoan Allen and Richard C. Allen11. “We Must Hope That the Moderates with Their Quiet Attire Are the Rising Section”: British Women Friends’ Relinquishment of Plain DressHannah Rumball12. “The Joy of Doing Right”: The Humanitarian Work of Doctor Hilda Clark During the First World WarLinda PalfreemanAfterword by Emma Lapsansky-WernerSelected BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisWho are the Quakers, what do they believe, and what do they practice? The Religious Society of Friends - also known as Quakers - believes that everyone can have a direct experience of God. This title explains Quakerism through quotations from writings that cover 350 years, from the beginnings of the movement.Trade Review"They [the Quakers] are fascinating. . . . Durham directs the reader to the movement's most articulate members. . . . The reader sees what goes on in Quaker meetings [and] how inspired members have contributed to social change in many areas."--Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times -- Susan Salter Reynolds * Los Angeles Times *

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Book SynopsisThis book brings Quaker thought on theological ethics into constructive dialogue with Christian tradition while engaging with key contemporary ethical debates and with wider questions about the public role of church-communities in a post/secular context.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Knowing Experimentally: Approaches to Quaker Testimony and Theology 1. Walking in the Light: The Bible and Quaker Testimony 2. 'We do utterly deny...': Refusals, Silences and Negative Testimony 3. Speaking Truth to Power, and Other Holy Experiments 4. 'Sweat not at all': Oaths, Non-Violence and Conscience 5. Religious Freedom and Solidarity: Quaker Martyrs and their Communities 6. Being Witnesses: Marriage, Sexuality and Tradition 7. Sustainability and Simplicity

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Book SynopsisThis critical reassessment of the Quaker-sponsored humanitarian nursing convoy in 1940s China will deepen understanding of the ethical, cultural, and political barriers to delivering humanitarian assistance then and now.Trade ReviewThe book contributes in an interesting and valuable way to the history of nursing by women in faith. -- Charmaine Robson, University of New South Wales * Health and History, Vol. 20, No. 2 *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: From Regional War to Global War, 1941–45Introduction to Part 11 Trial by Fire: Early Field Operations, 1941–422 A Marriage of Convenience: Courting the Chinese Nurses, 1942–433 The Salween Campaign: Humanitarian Diplomacy, 1944–454 “China Needs Good Men, and Still Better Women,” British Nurses, 1943–445 Baoshan: Professionalism, Pacifism, and Proposals, 1944–45Part 2: Navigating New Humanitarian Frontiers, 1945–51Introduction to Part 2 6 The Road to Honan: Plagues, Cholera, and Devilish Devolutions, 1944–457 Henan: Hope and Despair, 1945–478 “Early Team”: Guerrilla Warfare Nursing, 1946–47Part 3: Unwelcome Visitors: Negotiating Access with The Communists, 1947–51Introduction to Part 39 Nursing beyond the Trenches, 1947–50Conclusion: Nurse Warriors without WeaponsNotes; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisIn Moral Commerce, Julie L. Holcomb traces the genealogy of the boycott of slave labor from its seventeenth-century Quaker origins through its late nineteenth-century...Trade ReviewMoral Commerce will appeal to a broad range of readers, from students in upper division undergraduate college courses to graduate students to informed readers in general. This account should certainly be read by every scholar of both American and British antislavery, black nationalism, African recolonization, and social reform movements. * H-Pennsylvania *In this important, scholarly and highly detailed new book, Julie L. Holcomb carefully examines how the Free Produce Movement took shape: its history, scope and remit, successes, failures, key players and complex organisation.... The combination of broader brushstrokes and fine detail, drawn from a wealth of primary sources, will provide fascinating reading for both specialist and non-specialist readerships. * Quaker Studies *The most carefully contextualized, thorough history of the "free-produce" movement, which boycotted goods made by slave labor and pushed to market free-labor-made products, persuasively argues for the historical importance of the free-produce minority within the minority of abolitionists. * Journal of American History *In this important, scholarly, and highly detailed new book, Julie L. Holcomb examines the successes and failures of the free produce movement.... Contributes considerably to our understanding of the ideologies, mechanisms, and impacts of free produce.... Richest in its meticulous exploration of free produce within American culture. * Winterthur Portfolio *A fascinating account that brings new sources and perspectives to bear on Quaker abolitionist activism.... Persuasively situates the history of abolitionist boycotts within the dynamic context of Quaker criticisms of transatlantic consumer culture and moral repugnance in the face of slavery's brutality. * American Historical Review *Holcomb demonstrates how the movement forced otherwise neutral parties to take a side in the debate, ensuring the discussion around free-labor goods remained relevant to the antislavery plight. Her study is a significant addition to the historiography of the free-labor movement, and her excellent work is a must-read for anyone interested in the study of the antislavery movement and Quakerism. * Reading Religion *Moral Commerce: Quakers and the Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy meticulously chronicles the transformation of mid-seventeenth-century Biblically-based Quaker opposition to consuming commodities produced from slave labor to an international movement equally grounded in spiritual and secular concerns. * The North Carolina Historical Review *Moral Commerce touches on labor, political, social, and cultural history in eight wide-ranging chapters of less than 300 pages. Holcomb provides readers with an engaging and concise narrative that, among other things, examines a key question that the book sets out to answer; that is, to what extent was the boycott a Quaker movement? * The Journal of African American History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Principle Both Moral and Commercial 1. Prize Goods: The Quaker Origins of the Slave-Labor Boycott 2. Blood-Stained Sugar: The Eighteenth-Century British Abstention Campaign 3. Striking at the Root of Corruption: American Quakers and the Boycott in the Early National Period 4. I Am a Man, Your Brother: Elizabeth Heyrick, Abstention, and Immediatism 5. Woman's Heart: Free Produce and Domesticity 6. An Abstinence Baptism: American Abolitionism and Free Produce 7. Yards of Cotton Cloth and Pounds of Sugar: The Transatlantic Free-Produce Movement 8. Bailing the Atlantic with a Spoon: Free Produce in the 1840s and 1850s Conclusion: There Is Death in the Pot!

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Book SynopsisIn a sad irony, Hannah Freeman was establishing her residency - a claim that paved the way for her removal to the poorhouse. This book reconstructs Hannah Freeman's history, traveling from the days of her grandmothers before European settlement to the beginning of the nineteenth century.Trade Review“Clear and compelling. . . . Through the life of Hannah Freeman, Marsh places the mythology of Penn’s peaceable kingdom in stark relief.”—Jean R. Soderlund, Western Historical Quarterly"A thoughtful documentation of one woman's struggle to maintain her ancestral homeland."—Booklist“In a genre that so often focuses on the lives of politically significant ‘great men’ (and occasionally women), we rarely learn of the lives of the marginalized, but this is exactly what historian Dawn G. Marsh has attempted. A Lenape among the Quakers is a scathing indictment of the hypocrisy of Quakers’ professions of peace while engaged in a land grab.”—Michelle LeMaster, Ethnohistory “Engagingly written—and impassioned as Marsh clearly chastises Hannah Freeman’s Quaker neighbors for their hypocrisy in promoting friendly relations with indigenous neighbors and landowners, while facilitating their dispossession.”—Gunlog Fur, Journal of the Early Republic “With great insight and sensitivity, Dawn Marsh has pieced together Hannah Freeman’s story. All who have ever wondered what happened to Pennsylvania’s Native people should read this book.”—Nancy Shoemaker, author of A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America “Using the closely examined life of a single eighteenth-century Native American woman, Dawn Marsh convincingly challenges Pennsylvania’s claim to a more just and humane treatment of its indigenous peoples, persuasively contending that Native Americans adopted complex strategies to preserve their cultural heritage, and explores the significance of the continuing mythology of ‘Indian Hannah’ Freeman—all in a good read.”—Melton McLaurin, author of Celia, A Slave“Marsh makes commendable use of the scant documentary evidence to piece together Hannah Freeman’s life. Her painstaking efforts to give Hannah a voice are impressive.” Thomas Britten, The Historian Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter 1. The Examination of Hannah Freeman Chapter 2. All Our Grandmothers Chapter 3. The Peaceable Kingdom Chapter 4. Lenapehoking Lost Chapter 5. Kindness Extended Chapter 6. The Betrayal Epilogue Appendix 1. The Examination of Indian Hannah alias Hannah Freeman Appendix 2. Kindness Extended Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisOn July 28, 1797, an elderly Lenape woman stood before the newly appointed almsman of Pennsylvania's Chester County and delivered a brief account of her life. In a sad irony, Hannah Freeman was establishing her residency - a claim that paved the way for her removal to the poorhouse. A Lenape among the Quakers reconstructs Freeman's history.Trade Review“Clear and compelling. . . . Through the life of Hannah Freeman, Marsh places the mythology of Penn’s peaceable kingdom in stark relief.”—Jean R. Soderlund, Western Historical Quarterly"A thoughtful documentation of one woman's struggle to maintain her ancestral homeland."—Booklist“In a genre that so often focuses on the lives of politically significant ‘great men’ (and occasionally women), we rarely learn of the lives of the marginalized, but this is exactly what historian Dawn G. Marsh has attempted. A Lenape among the Quakers is a scathing indictment of the hypocrisy of Quakers’ professions of peace while engaged in a land grab.”—Michelle LeMaster, Ethnohistory “Engagingly written—and impassioned as Marsh clearly chastises Hannah Freeman’s Quaker neighbors for their hypocrisy in promoting friendly relations with indigenous neighbors and landowners, while facilitating their dispossession.”—Gunlog Fur, Journal of the Early Republic “With great insight and sensitivity, Dawn Marsh has pieced together Hannah Freeman’s story. All who have ever wondered what happened to Pennsylvania’s Native people should read this book.”—Nancy Shoemaker, author of A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America “Using the closely examined life of a single eighteenth-century Native American woman, Dawn Marsh convincingly challenges Pennsylvania’s claim to a more just and humane treatment of its indigenous peoples, persuasively contending that Native Americans adopted complex strategies to preserve their cultural heritage, and explores the significance of the continuing mythology of ‘Indian Hannah’ Freeman—all in a good read.”—Melton McLaurin, author of Celia, A Slave“Marsh makes commendable use of the scant documentary evidence to piece together Hannah Freeman’s life. Her painstaking efforts to give Hannah a voice are impressive.” Thomas Britten, The Historian Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter 1. The Examination of Hannah Freeman Chapter 2. All Our Grandmothers Chapter 3. The Peaceable Kingdom Chapter 4. Lenapehoking Lost Chapter 5. Kindness Extended Chapter 6. The Betrayal Epilogue Appendix 1. The Examination of Indian Hannah alias Hannah Freeman Appendix 2. Kindness Extended Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe Reformation of American Quakerism, 1748-1783 offers a detailed history of the withdrawal of the Society of Friends from mainstream America between 1748 and the end of the American Revolution. Marietta examines the causes, course, and consequences, social and political, of the Quakers' retreat from prominent positions in civil government.Trade Review"The most important book on eighteenth-century American Quakerism." * Gary B. Nash, University of California, Los Angeles *Table of ContentsFigures and Tables Preface THE SOCIAL REFORMATION 1. The Context of Reform: Quaker Discipline 2. 2. The Beginnings of Reform, 1748-1755 3. 3. Social Reforms: Personal Behavior and Families, 1755-1783 4. The Labors and Faith of the Reformers 5. the Fruits of Reformation: New Testimonies THE POLITICAL REFORMATION 6. Prologue to Reform, 1739-1755 7. Withdrawal from Government, 1756 8. Perfecting Pacificism, 1756-1758 9. Reformation Stalled, 1763-1765 10. The Exhaustion of Quaker Politics, 1765-1775 11. Beleaguered Quakers, 1775-1782 COSUMMATION 12. Reformation in the Revolution Abbreviations Sources Notes Index

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Book SynopsisHow did Quakers reconcile their belief in plain living with their appreciation of fine material goods?Trade Review"This anthology of case studies . . . challenges conventional notions of the Society of Friends as theologically bound to plainness, showing the great variety of expression, decoration, and response to changing tastes as both makers and users of material goods." * Choice *

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Book SynopsisAdvices and queries designed to challenge and inspire Australian Quakers in their personal lives and in their life as a religious community.

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Book Synopsis a model combination of scholarship and readability' Thomas Hamm, Emeritus Professor of History, Earlham College. Author of The Quakers in America highly readable and engaging' Robynne Rogers Healey, Professor of History, Trinity Western University a book at once both lively and authoritative' Stephen K. Roberts, History of Parliament Trust, London Ambitious in its intent, and masterful in its execution.' Jackson van Uden, History with Jackson & BBC History Extra '30 under 30' A vivid and groundbreaking account' Estelle Paranque, Author of Thorns, Lust and Glory: The Betrayal of Anne Boleyn Insightful and engaging, this balanced account brings their convictions and struggles to life, while revealing the bold, disruptive strategies these spiritual revolutionaries employed to achieve their ends.' Mark Turnbull, Author of Prince Rupert of the Rhine: King Charles I''s Cavalier Commander moving perspectives not found in previous scholarship' Professor Ronald Hutton CBE, Author of Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief The mid-seventeenth century was a tumultuous time, and out of the chaos, Quakerism was born. Zealous: A Darker Side of the Early Quakers tells a different side to this story. The Civil Wars touched all corners of England, Scotland and Wales; the people of the poor, almost wasted Kingdom' were war-weary, miserable and in total ruin. Years of conflict left the people in utter desperation. Communities were pillaged, torn apart and irrevocably changed. And then, in September 1651, it was over. What remained was a tattered landscape, an uncertain political future, religious upheaval and emotional trauma. Amongst the turmoil, a new religious movement started in the north of England. The early Quakers were a group of people led by charismatic preachers wholly convinced that it was their responsibility to save as many souls as possible. Their methods of convincing others ranged from failed attempts at miracles, to disruptive behaviour and infuriating local authorities by repeatedly breaking the law. The early Quakers were standing on shifting sands during a very uncertain time. Throughout history, fear has always compelled people to do just about anything to feel safe and secure. Their zeal led them to challenge what they saw as an impure world. They were willing to die for their beliefs, and on occasion, they would commit unspeakable acts in the name of God.

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Book SynopsisGeorge Fox (1624â91), founder of The Religious Society of Friends (or Quakers), was well known during his lifetime as a healer and worker of miracles. He wrote prolifically of how he used God's power to effect over one hundred and fifty cures, of both physical disease or injury and mental or psychological problems. This work was critical to spreading the word about Quakerism in its early years. Many of Fox's papers were lost after his death, but from the clues and fragments that remained, and a contemporary index of his works, Henry Cadbury (1883â1974) was able to create this book, published in 1948. The preface make clear that this was not intended as a work of critical analysis, though the findings are annotated with historical and documentary detail. The editor's devotion to his task is testament to the historical and spiritual significance of Fox's contribution to Quakerism.Table of ContentsForeword Rufus M. Jones; Preface; Introduction: Miracle in sixteenth-century England; Early Quaker miracles; Quaker miracles both ridiculed and demanded; Quaker claims and caution; George Fox, miracle and medicine; The lost book - recovery and contents; Contemporary publications of miracles; Attacks on published miracles; The Book of Miracles: text and notes; Index.

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Book SynopsisQuaker women were unusually active participants in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century cultural and religious exchange, as ministers, missionaries, authors and spiritual leaders. Drawing upon documentary evidence, with a focus on women''s personal writings and correspondence, Naomi Pullin explores the lives and social interactions of Quaker women in the British Atlantic between 1650 and 1750. Through a comparative methodology, focused on Britain and the North American colonies, Pullin examines the experiences of both those women who travelled and preached and those who stayed at home. The book approaches the study of gender and religion from a new perspective by placing women''s roles, relationships and identities at the centre of the analysis. It shows how the movement''s transition from ''sect to church'' enhanced the authority and influence of women within the movement and uncovers the multifaceted ways in which female Friends at all levels were active participants in making and susTrade Review'… Pullin has justly been nominated for the Ecclesiastical History Society Prize, as this book is a work of outstanding quality.' Catherine Gill, H-Early-America'A significant contribution to early modern transatlantic and religious historiography, Pullin indirectly reminds the reader that women's history is everyone's history. … this book is a must- read for scholars and historians of religion and gender studies to as far afield as colonial Quakerism and the British Atlantic.' Allison Kach, Religious Studies ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Spiritual housewives and Mothers in Israel: Quaker domestic relationships; 2. 'A government of women': authority and community within the Quaker Women's Meetings; 3. 'United by this holy cement': the constructions, practices, and experiences of female Friendship; 4. 'In the world, but not of it': Quaker women's interactions with the non-Quaker world; Conclusion: Quakerism reconsidered; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisHow can the simple choice of a men's suit be a moral statement and a political act? When the suit is made of free-labor wool rather than slave-grown cotton. In Moral Commerce, Julie L. Holcomb traces the genealogy of the boycott of slave labor from its seventeenth-century Quaker origins through its late nineteenth-century decline. In their failures and in their successes, in their resilience and their persistence, antislavery consumers help us understand the possibilities and the limitations of moral commerce. Quaker antislavery rhetoric began with protests against the slave trade before expanding to include boycotts of the use and products of slave labor. For more than one hundred years, British and American abolitionists highlighted consumers' complicity in sustaining slavery. The boycott of slave labor was the first consumer movement to transcend the boundaries of nation, gender, and race in an effort by reformers to change the conditions of production. The movementTrade ReviewMoral Commerce will appeal to a broad range of readers, from students in upper division undergraduate college courses to graduate students to informed readers in general. This account should certainly be read by every scholar of both American and British antislavery, black nationalism, African recolonization, and social reform movements. * H-Pennsylvania *In this important, scholarly and highly detailed new book, Julie L. Holcomb carefully examines how the Free Produce Movement took shape: its history, scope and remit, successes, failures, key players and complex organisation.... The combination of broader brushstrokes and fine detail, drawn from a wealth of primary sources, will provide fascinating reading for both specialist and non-specialist readerships. * Quaker Studies *The most carefully contextualized, thorough history of the "free-produce" movement, which boycotted goods made by slave labor and pushed to market free-labor-made products, persuasively argues for the historical importance of the free-produce minority within the minority of abolitionists. * Journal of American History *In this important, scholarly, and highly detailed new book, Julie L. Holcomb examines the successes and failures of the free produce movement.... Contributes considerably to our understanding of the ideologies, mechanisms, and impacts of free produce.... Richest in its meticulous exploration of free produce within American culture. * Winterthur Portfolio *A fascinating account that brings new sources and perspectives to bear on Quaker abolitionist activism.... Persuasively situates the history of abolitionist boycotts within the dynamic context of Quaker criticisms of transatlantic consumer culture and moral repugnance in the face of slavery's brutality. * American Historical Review *Holcomb demonstrates how the movement forced otherwise neutral parties to take a side in the debate, ensuring the discussion around free-labor goods remained relevant to the antislavery plight. Her study is a significant addition to the historiography of the free-labor movement, and her excellent work is a must-read for anyone interested in the study of the antislavery movement and Quakerism. * Reading Religion *Moral Commerce: Quakers and the Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy meticulously chronicles the transformation of mid-seventeenth-century Biblically-based Quaker opposition to consuming commodities produced from slave labor to an international movement equally grounded in spiritual and secular concerns. * The North Carolina Historical Review *Moral Commerce touches on labor, political, social, and cultural history in eight wide-ranging chapters of less than 300 pages. Holcomb provides readers with an engaging and concise narrative that, among other things, examines a key question that the book sets out to answer; that is, to what extent was the boycott a Quaker movement? * The Journal of African American History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Principle Both Moral and Commercial 1. Prize Goods: The Quaker Origins of the Slave-Labor Boycott 2. Blood-Stained Sugar: The Eighteenth-Century British Abstention Campaign 3. Striking at the Root of Corruption: American Quakers and the Boycott in the Early National Period 4. I Am a Man, Your Brother: Elizabeth Heyrick, Abstention, and Immediatism 5. Woman's Heart: Free Produce and Domesticity 6. An Abstinence Baptism: American Abolitionism and Free Produce 7. Yards of Cotton Cloth and Pounds of Sugar: The Transatlantic Free-Produce Movement 8. Bailing the Atlantic with a Spoon: Free Produce in the 1840s and 1850s Conclusion: There Is Death in the Pot!

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Book SynopsisRandazzo's theological narrative of liberal Quakerism creates clarity and structure without compromising the capacious breadth and depth of this distinctive tradition. Using the metaphors of an ecosystem, Randazzo helps readers understand the richness of Quaker theology while offering space for the myriad ways Friends experience the sacred.

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